Sentence examples for curio from inspiring English sources

Chock-a-block with design agencies and curio shops, and hugging an ancient reservoir, tiny Hauz Khas is easy to navigate and not too crowded, except at weekends.

A 20 year-old wine can be a curio to some people.

As they gain skills and confidence, robots such as Sony's QRIO (pronounced "curio") and Honda's ASIMO are venturing to unlikely places.

THE strangest thing about Fidel Castro's Cuban revolution is its current status as a curio.

Yahoo! belatedly tried to keep up and bought sites such as flickr for photo-sharing and del.icio.us for bookmark-sharing, but it "put them in the curio cabinet" without transforming the company, says Jerry Michalski, a technology consultant.

Sony responded with QRIO (pronounced "curio") in 2003.

But, as time went by, the Beatles became as much of a historical curio as Al Jolson or Bing Crosby or Frank Sinatra or Elvis Presley before them.

Under the early republic (5th 4th century bc), the curiae gradually lost their political and military importance and functioned mainly as religious bodies, headed by an official called a curio.

Ensor's interest in masks probably began in his mother's curio shop.

After travelling down to London from their native Scotland for this interview, the pair headed straight for the very unrock'n'roll Sir John Soane's Museum, a sub-rosa and thoroughly charming little curio tucked away in Lincoln's Inn.

The Orient Express is a magnificent curio and freak weather made the memories stronger.